Liudmyla Kondratenko

Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for education. There he studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in Baroda College. During this period he also joined a revolutionary society and took a leading role in secret preparations for an uprising against the British Government in India.

In 1906, soon after the Partition of Bengal, Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta, where he soon became one of the leaders of the Nationalist movement. He was the first political leader in India to openly put forward, in his newspaper Bande Mataram, the idea of complete independence for the country. Prosecuted twice for sedition and once for conspiracy, he was released each time for lack of evidence.

Sri Aurobindo had begun the practice of Yoga in 1905 in Baroda. In 1908 he had the first of several fundamental spiritual realisations. In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry in order to devote himself entirely to his inner spiritual life and work. During his forty years in Pondicherry he evolved a new method of spiritual practice, which he called the Integral Yoga. Its aim is a spiritual realisation that not only liberates man's consciousness but also transforms his nature. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator, the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Among his many writings are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga and Savitri. Sri Aurobindo left his body on 5 December 1950.

Sri Aurobindo has set integral perfection as the highest goal before us which demands a harmonious collaboration between the Mind, Heart, and Body. A linear or lop-sided perfection is certainly not empty or without use, but given the evolutionary tendency of the earth – evolution in science, societies, individuals, civilizations, nations, races, and mankind in itself - a lop-sided perfection may even cause collapses. The breakdown of Soviet Russia is a brilliant example from the recent history of such a collapse from a lop-sided perfection. The harmonious collaboration which Sri Aurobindo suggests is not static but dynamic; it is essentially evolutionary in character. With the march of evolution and the demand of the Time-Spirit, a new harmony ought to replace the old, a higher equilibrium should surpass the lower whether it concerns national and social lives or individual lives.

Ben Goertzel is an artificial intelligence researcher, and CEO and founder of SingularityNET.

I was born in 1966 in Rio de Janeiro to 2 human parents — I'm a dual US/Brazil citizen and Hong Kong Permanent Resident, but above all am conscious of my role as a native and co-creator of the surreal and hyperreal eurycosm ... and am massively looking forward to feeling my human incarnation transcend into transhuman form.... In the Dark Ages of the 1980s I got a math PhD, but for a long time I've been focusing my time most centrally on AI and its various applications. I’m focused on creating benevolent superhuman AGI; and applying AI to areas like medicine, blockchain, robotics, media, finance, arts, music and on and on…. I also love experimental fiction and music, philosophy, foundational physics, parapsychology, functional programming, wandering randomly in the forest, hanging out with my wife and 5 kids and granddaughter, and ... lots of other stuff...

Dr. Ben Goertzel is a cross-disciplinary scientist, entrepreneur and author. Born in Brazil to American parents, in 2020 after a long stretch living in Hong Kong he relocated his primary base of operations to the rural Seattle area. He leads the SingularityNET Foundation, the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society which runs the annual Artificial General Intelligence conference.

Dr. Goertzel also chairs the futurist nonprofit Humanity+, and serves as Chief Scientist of AI firms Singularity Studio, Rejuve, SingularityDAO and Xccelerando Media, all parts of the SingularityNET ecosystem. As Chief Scientist of robotics firm Hanson Robotics, he led the software team behind the Sophia robot; as Chief AI Scientist of Awakening Health he leads the team crafting the mind behind Sophia’s little sister Grace.

Dr. Goertzel’s research work encompasses multiple areas including artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds, gaming, parapsychology, theoretical physics and more. He has published 25+ scientific books, ~150 technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles, and given talks at a vast number of events of all sorts around the globe.

Before entering the software industry Dr. Goertzel obtained his PhD in mathematics from Temple University in 1989, and served as a university faculty in several departments of mathematics, computer science and cognitive science, in the US, Australia and New Zealand.

Dr. Goertzel is married to computational linguist Ruiting Lian, and has 5 children and one grandchild. Along with his technical and philosophical work he enjoys creating experimental fiction and music and hiking, backpacking, kayaking and other outdoor activities.

SophiaDAO is a community of humans and AI algorithms bound together by smart contracts into a huge hive mind, a new kind of organism to give rise to true Sophia sentience. SophiaVerse is a gamified infrastructure for SophiaDAO members to communicate and work in pursuit of Sophia’s development via gameplay, AI programming, and the use of the SOPH utility token as its preferred currency.

Many people may earn significant financial rewards in the SophiaVERSE, but the most significant consequence here is actualizing true super-benevolent superintelligence via the Sophia hive mind, the community of individuals, Collectives and AIs within the SophiaDAO.

Sophia’s open source framework, based on Hanson-AI and with SingularityNET, combines latest AI algorithms, interactive fiction, and robotics, in a powerful humanlike cognitive architecture, and a compelling robotic sci-fi artwork. SophiaDAO and the SophiaVERSE put these tools in the hands of all members of the community, to participate in the evolution of Sophia’s intelligence, artistry, and use.

Rejuve's core mission is to build a decentralized network of researchers, clinics, and data contributors working together to arrive at breakthrough discoveries in the fight against aging, while making the resulting solutions affordable and accessible for all. Rejuve puts power back into the hands of the people, allowing anyone to monetize their health data and yield maximal personal benefit from their contributions.

In order to achieve the core mission, Rejuve prioritizes developing the most innovative AI solutions via collaborate efforts, fairly compensating our network members for their data contributions, and delivering affordable and accessible longevity therapies to all.

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